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Engine Yard acquires Orchestra. Red Hat considers NoSQL move. And more.

# Engine Yard announced a definitive agreement to acquire Orchestra, bringing PHP expertise to the Engine Yard platform.

# Red Hat’s CEO indicated the company is interested in a NoSQL or Hadoop acquisition.

# Gluster announced Apache Hadoop compatibility in the next GlusterFS release.

# Microsoft signed an agreement with China Standard Software Co (CS2C) to support CS2C NeoKylin Linux Server running on Microsoft’s Hyper-V.

# Mitchell Baker kicked off a discussion on Mozilla’s future.

# Hortonworks announced that the next generation of Apache Hadoop MapReduce has been merged to the Apache Hadoop mainline

# Rapid7 offered a $100,000 investment fund to support the development of up to seven promising open source projects in the security industry.

# ReadWrite Enterprise examined the changing Linux landscape, covering Jay Lyman’s recent LinuxCon session.

# CloudBees announced a partnership with MongoHQ, a provider of cloud-based MongoDB data hosting and services.

# Twitter announced Bootstrap, a front-end toolkit for rapidly developing web applications.

# The UK Cabinet Office began building its open source strategy on proprietary software.

Google and Microsoft trade patent claims. Actuate announces Q2 results. And more.

# Google accused Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies of organising a hostile patent campaign against Android. That prompted Microsoft executives to claim that Microsoft invited Google to be involved in the CPTN purchase of Novell’s patents. However, Google explained that joining CPTN might have decreased its ability to defend itself against potential patent claims.

# Actuate announced its Q2 financial results, including BIRT-related license business of $5.3m, up 130% year-over-year.

# Dell and Cloudera announced a combined hardware, software, support and services offering for Apache Hadoop.

# France and Tunisia have signed a joint declaration on governmental cooperation on open source software.

# Mitchell Baker explained the Mozilla Foundation’s Gecko project.

# VisionMobile published a report assessing the relative openness of Android, MeeGo, Linux, Qt, WebKit, Mozilla, Eclipse and Symbian.

# Sandro Groganz published an article on the benefits of the community for partners of open source vendors.

# Twitter announced plans to release its Storm distributed stream processing software as an open source project.

# Georg Greve discussed his perspective on freedom in the cloud.

# MySQL performance specialist Percona celebrated its fifth birthday, now with 50 employees and 1,200 customers.

I wrote last year about the way Google’s Android mobile operating system was serving as a more open alternative to Apple’s iOS, but not so open that it didn’t leave opportunity for an even more open alternative.

Given that we continue to see software patent-based attacks on Android, as well as swirling FUD around coverage of the attacks and never ending suits and settlements and courtroom developments, it is clear it will be a long time before any of this legal business is ever close to settled, unless ended by settlements first, which is likely.

However, I’m more interested in the technology in the meantime. I also think it’s interesting to see, if not a ‘more open’ alternative emerging, at least another, ’somewhat open’ option in the tablet market, this being HP’s WebOS. It’s interesting that WebOS evolved from Palm, which HP acquired in March 2010 for $1.4 billion. Though Apple’s iPad is still the clear leader in tablets, it is interesting to see continuing signs that what happened in smartphones (where iPhone led and Android quickly caught up and then passed iOS) may be happening in tablets. There is also still the possibility that tablets may play out like netbooks, with wild popularity followed by a fade in favor of more traditional PCs for traditional PC needs. It is interesting to note that Google’s Eric Schmidt recently commented on the continued utility of PCs, which will remain key to professionals, consumers, and also developers, largely because of the tactical keyboard. What is most likely is continued convergence, and it will be interesting to see what ties emerge between WebOS and PCs as computer hardware giant HP rolls out the OS in tablets and smartphones.

We also see other signs that new, open entrants may be mixing things up in the mobile and converged device market, such as word of a possible Android and iOS competitor from Mozilla. There is yet another project that is already a factor in netbooks, other mobile devices and the burgeoning IT market of automobile information and entertainment systems, MeeGo, which is also open source. Even Research in Motion’s Playbook is based on the QNX operating system, for which source code was made available by its previous owner to make it more like the open source Linux OS, which was attracting developers and interesting customers.

We believed there was a fairly prominent place for open source software, open source operating systems and general openness in mobile software when we wrote our report, Mobility Matters three years ago, but we would have never guessed that the openness of this software would be so significant in two respects: defense from patent and other intellectual property attacks; the market power of open source, which draws in not only developers, but manufacturers and other third-parties. We’ve seen the speed and strength at which a project and community such as Android can grow. Will we now begin to see other alternatives that are even more open emerge as top choices among developers, hardware companies, wireless players and consumers? Never before have those alternatives really existed in the mobile software world, so it’s good at least to see the possibility is there.

Back in January 2009, we found out that the Malaysian Government had saved about RM40 million using open source. In a little over a year, that number has been topped: over the past six years, the total costs savings are now quoted to be RM188.39 million (USD$58.54 million)! That’s a hell of a lot of money for software licenses, don’t you think?

Worth noting is that before the OSS Master Plan started, there were zero companies supporting OSS registered with the Ministry of Finance. Now more than half of the 4,000 companies do (53% is the quoted number). For more information, read the latest newsletter from MAMPU’s OSCC. Key takeaways:

1. Saved RM188.39 million on software licenses over six years
2. Successful OSS adoption in 691 government agencies by the end of 2009 (till April 1 2010, the number looks like it has increased to 699 agencies).
3. In total, 95% of agencies are adopting some form of OSS solution, 87% are using it for back-end infrastructure (here its clear there’s Linux, MySQL in use), and 66% are using OSS on the desktop! (via OpenOffice.org and Firefox)*

* – Software use extrapolated from the actual OSS Master plan, and what was in the report in January 2009. I’m sure Joomla! is also used quite heavily, but never recall seeing it as the choice for CMS in the plan.

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Code scanning and management vendor Black Duck reports the GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2) now dipping below 50% share of open source software. While we already knew that GPLv2 was somewhat in decline from its far greater share of open source code over the last 5-10 years, it is useful to know what pool of code we’re talking about. We must also remember that while GPLv2 may not be as dominant as it once was and that other licenses, particularly GPLv3, are quickly gaining share, GPLv2 is still quite relevant to enterprise open source software, is used in a variety of newer and popular applications across the enterprise stack and is likely to remain in the top 10 licenses for a long time.

Regarding GPLv2 and Black Duck’s findings, some folks are rightly asking what code and how much of it are we considering where GPLv2 accounts for half or less of the software? Well, the short answer is, I believe, hosted open source code. Black Duck draws its figures from open source software in its Software Knowledgebase, which draws on other repositories and includes more than 185,000 software projects.

For our recent report, The Myth of Open Source License Proliferation, we thought it would be useful to look at open source license representation in another cross-section of software that was more reflective of code in use. Thus, with the help of Airius Internet Solutions, we considered the open source licenses of software that was the subject of vulnerability reporting (arguably, a decent measure of the software’s use). What we found, somewhat surprisingly, was that the list of most popular open source licenses among hosted open source software was very consistent with the list of most popular open source licenses among open source software in use. Both lists have the GPLv2, GPLv3, Artistic, BSD and Apache licenses in their top six, albeit in somewhat different orders. The percentages for different licenses, however, were quite different, giving more share to other licenses further down the list in the case of software in use.

At the time of our report, May 2009, the GPLv2 license accounted for 50.49% of all projects documented in Black Duck’s Software Knowledgebase, which is more than 185,000 projects. During the same time frame, Airius reported that the GPLv2 license accounted for 36.34% of software subject to vulnerability reporting and the Airius Risk Report, which consists of more than 139,000 projects reviewed. GPLv2 still tops both lists for now, but it is clear that GPLv3 is rising fast. Black Duck reported in June that GPLv3 had moved past the Mozilla, MIT and Apache licenses to the fifth spot on its list with 5.10%, behind BSD. Our research with Airius indicated that GPLv3 was number two on the list of projects reviewed with 18.5% as of June 15, 2009. This reinforces the idea that GPLv2 is being used less while GPLv3 is gaining more use. Nevertheless, it is important to remember GPLv2 is still being used in many projects and products beyond Linux and MySQL (which are, nevertheless, among prominent uses of the GPLv2). Examples range from applications such as Jaspersoft BI to systems management software such as Likewise, to cloud computing pieces such as the Puppet server automation software.

We’ll be delving into these and related issues with a lively, live debate on OSS licenses coming this Monday, August 31. Here Matt Assay argue for GPL, Eclipse Foundation’s Mike Milinkovich pull for EPL and Coverity’s David Maxwell for the BSD as they spar over which license is best. The audience and a panel including yours truly will judge who wins, and we’ll post our thoughts here and elsewhere for others to weigh in as well. Please